Nash has a
B.A. in literature and sociology and an M.A. in behavioural science and communications from
Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. She received the President's Graduate Award, a Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship and the Fonds FCAC Pour l’aide et le Soutien a la Research (Québec). In 1983, Nash earned a Ph.D. on the Dean's List, from
McGill University in
Montréal. She was the first recipient of the Alumni Award from Simon Fraser University, and was awarded "The Emily" from the
Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2000. Nash has been a guest lecturer at the
Columbia School of Journalism in
New York City;
Concordia University in Montréal; Memorial University, St. John's, NL; Emily Carr University of Art and Design in
Vancouver;
St. Mary's College and
Stanford University in California.
Nash was the subject of the 1990
CBC documentary If You Love Free Speech: An Unguided Tour to the Twilight Zone, directed by Pierre Leduc. The documentary follows Nash on a journey to
Washington, D.C., in 1990, where she was invited to testify before a
Congressional hearing on free speech. This was the culmination of a 7-year battle, which saw her film If You Love This Planet go from the Oscar podium to the
United States Supreme Court, over a Justice Department ruling (The Foreign Agents Registration Act) which required the names of U.S. citizens who rented her film, be reported to the
FBI.[1]
Selected filmography
Josef's Daughter (2006) (editor)
Boys on the Fringe (2005) (editor)
Pleasant Street (2004) (editor)
White Thunder (2003) (editor, writer)
My Left Breast (2002) (editor)
Niagara (2000) 6-part series (co-editor, co-writer)
After Darwin (1999) (editor)
Penny Lang: Stand Up on High Ground (1998) (editor)
Kathleen Shannon: on Film, Feminism and Other Dreams (1996) (editor)
First Edition of Documentia, 2003,
Santa Cruz de Tenerife International Women's Film Festival, Sexo, Mentiras y Mundializacion, named in honour of Who's Counting?
References
^"Nash Terre". National Film Board of Canada. Archived from
the original on 2012-10-13. Retrieved 2011-06-06.